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A simple enough case on the face of it. A commercial traveller killed in a hotel bedroom on the Loire. But Maigret sensed falseness everywhere, in the way the witnesses spoke and laughed and acted and, above all, in the manner of M. Gallet's death, under a false name, from a shot that nobody heard. And behind the falseness, as Maigret discovere... more »d, the pathos of a man for whom nothing had every gone right - not even death.« less